{"id":22289,"date":"2018-08-12T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=22289"},"modified":"2022-10-26T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T17:46:07","slug":"council-leader-apologises-to-scum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=22289","title":{"rendered":"Council Leader Apologises to Scum"},"content":{"rendered":"

You couldn\u2019t make this up.<\/p>\n

Mike Bird, the leader of Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council<\/a>, has apologised for saying that travellers are a \u201clawless society\u201d.<\/p>\n

Let me just set the record straight. Travellers (note that I said \u201ctravellers\u201d) are filthy, lawless, putrid scumbags who deserve nothing. They are no better than the bags of shit they leave in the bushes of any site they illegally enter and deface. And the Law needs changing so that instead of the lengthy legal proceedings to move them off the places they criminally enter, JCBs should immediately be brought in to trash them and their caravans once and for all.<\/p>\n

Not one single infestation of travellers (note that I said \u201ctravellers\u201d) has a positive effect on those unfortunate enough to live within 5 miles of them.<\/p>\n

The filth who have been involved in situations in Nottingham have gone so far as to cut down hedgerows to get into private fields, and no one is ever going to convince me that when these sewer dwellers occupy someone else\u2019s property, the property owner should have fewer rights than they do. And every single one of them has left the most foul mess imaginable behind. I\u2019ve seen them doing it time after time, going into the bushes to urinate or defaecate. There was even a situation last week where they had been moved on almost immediately and had dumped sacks of human waste in a Country Park car park (that was in a police report, by the way).<\/p>\n

Other recent problems have been the closure of car parks, the cancelling of events after the scum moved in the day before, and there was even that one a month or two ago where they trashed Thwaites Brewery<\/a>, resulting in the loss of thousands of litres of beer and damage amounting to around \u00a3100,000 (and they shit all over the offices – they seem to have a bit of a problem with being able to use toilets properly, since Thwaites would have had those). These are not isolated cases – they are the norm.<\/p>\n

Councillor Bird is quoted:<\/p>\n

I deeply regret any offence caused, it was certainly not intended or meant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like him, I\u2019m not trying to cause offence, Unlike him, I mean every word I say. I\u2019m just stating facts, and if anyone is offended by that, tough.<\/p>\n

The article further states:<\/p>\n

Phien O’Reachtagian, chairman of the Gypsy and Traveller Coalition, said previously: “His suggestion that communities are lawless is cause for concern from someone in his position.<\/p>\n

“We’d be looking to make a formal complaint and liaise with police to see if a crime has been committed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

O’Reachtagian might do better to address the problems which are staring him and everyone else in the face instead of trying to twist and defend the indefensible. This has got nothing to do with Gypsies or Roma. It\u2019s the vast majority which are no more Gypsy or Roma than I am which are the problem. \u201cTravellers\u201d are not the same as Gypsies or Roma. And \u201ctravellers\u201d are<\/strong> a problem.<\/p>\n

In case O’Reachtagian tries his pathetic hissy-fit behaviour here, my comments are purely to do with those who are demonstrably lawless, who demonstrably piss and shit on private land, and who demonstrably leave skip loads of filth behind when they\u2019re finally and justly – if very belatedly – evicted.<\/p>\n

My comments are nothing at all to do with Gypsies and Roma – there\u2019s a quaint Gypsy caravan which moves around Nottinghamshire (it\u2019s been in Bunny and Stoke Bardolph recently), which stops for a day or two and has its horse grazing on the verges. They DON\u2019T<\/strong> leave a mess and aren\u2019t doing anyone any harm, and I would have no problem with them stopping outside my house.<\/p>\n